Joseph l



. L. WELLS.

HAIR ROLL.

(No Model.)

No. 337,642. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

INVENTOR WITNESSES N. PETERS. PhokmLilhogr-lphen Washington. D. C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH L. WELLS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE WESTON AND WELLS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CAMDEN, N. J.

HAIR-ROLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,642, dated March 9, 886.

Application tiled Mari-h 12, 1885. Serial No. 158,525. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

.Be it known that I, JOSEPH L.NVELLs, a citizen of the United States, residing inthe city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Rolls, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a braided steel-wire cylinder from which my improved hair-roll is formed. Fig. 2 isan end elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side View of the finished roll. Fig. 4 illustrates the application thereof. The nature of this invention is a braided or woven wire roll for puffing or supporting the hair, and its object is to provide such a toilet article that shall be light, cool, airy, and resilient.

The invention also comprises details of construct-ion, as will hereinafter appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, a, Fig. 1, represents an open hollow cylinder of light-tempered steel or other wire of any suitable dimensions, Fig. 2 being an end view or transverse section thereof. The wires coniposing the same are braided into a continuous roll by known machinery. The cylinder is highly elastic in all directions. In order to 0 give the same the usual form of a hair-rollbapering toward each end from about the middle, I draw together the ends of the cylinderthe great flexibility of the fabric readily perinitting this to be doneand secure the free 5 extremities of the wire bunch by means of metallic clips or buttons 1), as shown in Fig. 3. These clips serve also to cover over the end wires which would, if left free, be apt to prick the head of the wearer of the roll.

In order to present a flat-surface contact to the forehead or other part, I flatten the side of the roll, (either during the process of braiding the wire or subsequently,) as indicated at c by the end view, Fig. .2, and also in Fig. 3. The

flattening of thetubular fabric on one side gives 4 5 a firmer resistance to pressure upon the top or round part of the roll than if the same were made wholly tubular. This construction is applicable in connection with braided-wire cylinders to various purposes other than hairrolls, and will form the subject-matter of a broad claim in an application for Letters Patent which I propose filing during the pendency ofthis application.

The roll is secured to thehead of the wearer 5 in any suitable manner-for example, by means of an elastic cord, d, whose ends are at tached to the respective ends or clips b of the roll.

The mode of applying andusingthe device, 6 as indicated in Fig. 4, being well known re quires no special description.

If the hair which is laid over the roll is thin, it is desirable to apply to the latter a covering, temporary or otherwise, of netting 6 or other fabric corresponding in color to that of the hair, so that the sheen of the wire will not be visible through the hair.

It is obvious that by this construction-I fully attain the object of the invention, as herein before stated. I do not wish. however, to be understood as confining myself to the precise form or construction described, nor to the use of a braided wire-fabric; but

What Iclaini as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 15-

A hair-roll composed of a tube of braided elastic wire having its ends drawn together and fastened by means of buttons. one side of the tube being flattened to set comfortably and. securely upon the head of the wearer, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto aflixed my signature.

JOSEPH L. WELLS. W'itnesses:

JOHN NOLAN, FRANCIS 8. BROWN.- 

